Henry Kolker
Born: 1874-11-12 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 1947-07-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.
Filmography
1944
- Bluebeard as Deschamps
1943
- Sarong Girl as Jefferson Baxter
1942
- Reunion in France as General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1941
- A Woman's Face as Judge
- The Man Who Lost Himself as T.J. Mulhausen
- The Parson of Panamint as Judge Arnold Mason
- Sing for Your Supper as Myron T. Hayworth
- The Great Swindle as Stewart Cordell
- Las Vegas Nights as William Stevens Sr.
1940
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Rollins
- Grand Ole Opry as William C. Scully
1939
- Union Pacific as Asa M. Barrows
- The Real Glory as The General
- Let Us Live as Chief of Police
- Here I Am a Stranger as R.J. Bennett
- Main Street Lawyer as Donnelly, District Attorney
- These Glamour Girls as Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
- Hidden Power as Weston
- Parents on Trial as James Wesley
1938
- Marie Antoinette as Court Aide (uncredited)
- Holiday as Edward Seton
- Too Hot to Handle as Pearly Todd
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Horace Smith
- The Adventures of Marco Polo as Nicolo Polo
- Love Is a Headache as Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
- Safety in Numbers as Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
- The Invisible Menace as Col. Hackett
1937
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry as "Doc" Godfrey
- The Devil Is Driving as Charles Stevens
- Under Cover of Night as District Attorney Pritchard
- They Wanted to Marry as Mr. Hunter
- Maid of Salem as Crown Chief Justice Laughton
- Let Them Live as Judge Lederer
- Once a Doctor as Bruce Nordland
- Green Light as Dr. Lane
1936
- My Marriage as Maj. Vaile
- Romeo and Juliet as Friar Laurence
- Bullets or Ballots as Mr. Hollister
- The Man Who Lived Twice as Judge Treacher
- Theodora Goes Wild as Jonathan Grant
- Great Guy as Abel Canning
- Sitting on the Moon as Worthington
1935
- Society Doctor as Dr. Harvey
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Paul Lamartine
- I Live My Life as Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
- The Case of the Curious Bride as District Attorney Stacey
- Mad Love as Prefect Rosset
- The Black Room as Baron de Berghman
- Collegiate as Mr. MacGregor
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Warder (uncredited)
- Here Comes the Band as Simmon's Attorney
- The Mystery Man as Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
- A Dog of Flanders as Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
- One New York Night as Arthur Carlisle
- Reckless as Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
- Go Into Your Dance as Doctor
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Crippet
- Times Square Lady as Mr. Fielding
- The Florentine Dagger as Auctioneer
- Red Salute as Dean
- Diamond Jim as J.C. Randolf - Bank President
- Honeymoon Limited as Mr. Randall
- Shipmates Forever as Doctor (uncredited)
- Spring Tonic as Mr. Enix
- Red Hot Tires as Martin Sanford
- Frisco Waterfront as District Attorney
1934
- Imitation of Life as Dr. Preston (uncredited)
- Wonder Bar as R. H. Renaud
- I've Got Your Number as Lawyer Robert Kirkland
- She Loves Me Not as Charles M. Lawton
- The Girl from Missouri as Senator Titcombe
- Journal of a Crime as Henri Marcher
- The Band Plays On as Professor Hackett
- A Lost Lady as John Ormsby
- Let's Try Again as Mr. Blake
- Let's Talk It Over as Doctor
- Sisters Under the Skin as Jones
- Success at Any Price as Hatfield
- Whom the Gods Destroy as Carlo - the Puppeteer
- Bedside as Maritza's Manager
- Blind Date as J.W. Hartwell Sr.
- Black Moon as The Psychiatrist
- Million Dollar Ransom as Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
- The Hell Cat as C.W. Sloane
- Now and Forever as Mr. Clark
- Sing Sing Nights as Kurt Nordon
- The Ghost Walks as Dr. Kent
- Love Time as Emperor Francis I
- One Exciting Adventure as Customer, Oscar
- Lady by Choice as Opper
- Name the Woman as Judge Adams
1933
- Baby Face as J.R. Carter
- Hello, Sister! as Jameson Brewster - Bank President
- Bureau of Missing Persons as Theodore Arno
- I Loved a Woman as Mr. Sanborn
- Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! as The Judge
- The Power and the Glory as Mr. Borden
- The Narrow Corner as Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
- Meet the Baron as Baron Munchausen
- A Bedtime Story as Agent de Police
- The Keyhole as Schuyler Brooks
- Golden Harvest as Henry Flint
- Blood Money as Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
- Notorious But Nice as Defense Attorney Clark
- Gigolettes of Paris as Police Interrogator
1932
- Rasputin and the Empress as Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
- Devil and the Deep as Hutton
- Jewel Robbery as Baron Franz Hohenfels
- Faithless as Mr. Carter
- The Washington Masquerade as Stapleton
- The Crash as John Fair
- The First Year as Peter Barstow
1931
- I Like Your Nerve as Areal Pacheco
- Don't Bet on Women as Butterfield (uncredited)
- The Unholy Garden as Col. Lautrac
- The Yellow Ticket as Passport Clerk
- Quick Millions as District Attorney (uncredited)
- The Spy as Tchijinski
- Indiscreet as Mr. Woodward
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as New Englander (uncredited)
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion as D'Aiguillon
- The Way of All Men as Sharp
- The Bad One as Prosecutor
- Good Intentions as Butler
- East Is West as Mr. Benson
- One Heavenly Night as Prefect of Police
1929
- Pleasure Crazed as Col. Farquar
- The Valiant as Judge
- Coquette as Jasper Carter
- Love, Live & Laugh as Enrico
1928
- Don't Marry as General Willoughby
- The Beautiful Spy as Viceroy Cisneros
- Soft Living as Rodney S. Bowen
- Midnight Rose as Corbin
1927
- A Kiss in a Taxi as Leon Lambert
- Rough House Rosie as W.S. Davids
- Annie Laurie
1926
- Wet Paint as A Husband
- The Palace of Pleasure as Don Sebastian, Premier
- Hell's Four Hundred as John Gilmore
1925
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Marcus Morton
- Any Woman as Egbert Phillips
1924
- I Will Repay ... (Director)
- The Great Well ... (Director)
1923
- Sant'Ilario ... (Director)
- The Leopardess ... (Director)
- The Purple Highway ... (Director)
- The Snow Bride ... (Director)
1921
- A Man of Stone as (Uncredited)
- Disraeli ... (Director)
- The Fighter ... (Director)
- Bucking the Tiger ... (Director)
1920
- The Third Generation ... (Director)
- The Greatest Love ... (Director)
- The Palace of Darkened Windows ... (Director)
- Heart of Twenty ... (Director)
1919
- The Woman Michael Married ... (Director)
- A Man's Country ... (Director)
- The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Blackie's Redemption as Fred the Count
- The Parisian Tigress as Henri Dutray
- Her Purchase Price as Duke of Wryden
- The Brat as A Dandy
1918
- The House of Mirth as Lawrence Selden
- The Shell Game as Lawrence Gray
- Social Hypocrites as Dr. Frank Simpson
1916
- Gloria's Romance as Dr. Stephen Royce
1915
- The Warning as Robert Denman
- How Molly Malone Made Good as Himself
- The Man with the Iron Heart ... (Story)